SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Dynamic CMS sites are often powered by a database, which is a critical component to secure. Any time a site visitor clicks an image, fills out a contact form, or makes a purchase on your website, that information is stored in the database. That’s why your small business should make database security a top priority in 2020.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 16, 2024

Stop Ransomware in its Tracks With CipherTrust Transparent Encryption Ransomware Protection madhav Wed, 04/17/2024 - 05:22 Our last blog Ransomware Attacks: The Constant and Evolving Cybersecurity Threat described the ever dangerous and evolving cybersecurity threat of ransomware. Because ransomware does not care about your data.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Queryable encryption was the main attraction at MongoDB World 2022, for understandable reasons. In particular, data remains encrypted at insert, storage, and query. Both queries and their responses are encrypted over the wire and randomized for resistance to meta analysis.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2022

A bug in the message encryption mechanism used by Microsoft in Office 365 can allow to access the contents of the messages. Researchers at the cybersecurity firm WithSecure discovered a bug in the message encryption mechanism used by Microsoft in Office 365 that can allow to access message contents due. ” states Microsoft.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2022

It’s been a couple of decades since data tapes delivered by trucks made encryption a standard enterprise cybersecurity practice. Yet even as technology has changed, sending and receiving data remains a major vulnerability, ensuring encryption’s place as a foundational security practice. What is Encryption?

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 24, 2023

As the frequency of data breaches surges, it becomes increasingly imperative to guarantee the security and adequate encryption of passwords. In this article, I will provide an overview of password encryption, explaining its essence and modus operandi. What is password encryption? Why is password encryption necessary?

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SecureList

APRIL 18, 2022

Kaspersky experts have found a vulnerability in the Yanluowang encryption algorithm and created a free decryptor to help victims of this ransomware with recovering their files. According to Kaspersky Security Network data, attacks have been carried out in the United States, Brazil, Turkey and a few other countries.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One critical issue faced by organizations that rely on Exchange Server is the risk of a corrupt Exchange Server database cropping up. Fortunately, effective tools and wise best practices can help mitigate this this exposure enabling companies to indefinitely leverage Exchange Server as a productive, resilient and secure communications tool.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

We review Always Encrypted, a free database security tool included with Microsoft SQL Server.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 7, 2018

Last month, Wired published a long article about Ray Ozzie and his supposed new scheme for adding a backdoor in encrypted devices. Basically, each device has a unique public/private key pair and a secure processor. The public key goes into the processor and the device, and is used to encrypt whatever user key encrypts the data.

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SecureList

APRIL 18, 2022

Kaspersky experts have found a vulnerability in the Yanluowang encryption algorithm and created a free decryptor to help victims of this ransomware with recovering their files. According to Kaspersky Security Network data, attacks have been carried out in the United States, Brazil, Turkey and a few other countries.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2021

Recently emerged LockFile ransomware family LockFile leverages a novel technique called intermittent encryption to speed up encryption. Sophos researchers discovered that the group is now leveraging a new technique called “intermittent encryption” to speed up the encryption process.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

To protect a database of passwords in the event of a breach, businesses often employ one-way encryption using hashing to make passwords harder to use. The post How Cybercriminals Hack “Encrypted” Passwords appeared first on Enzoic. The post How Cybercriminals Hack “Encrypted” Passwords appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

Expert discovered an Elasticsearch instance belonging to a security firm containing over 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents. ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko. ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko. SecurityAffairs – Security firm, data leak).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You can now implement and maintain encryption with minimal impact. However, their integration raises challenges around security, privacy, and the reliability of the underlying infrastructure. Encryption is best practice to ensure cybercriminals do not gain access to your business’s sensitive data. Initial encryption.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2023

GoTo is notifying customers that its development environment was breached in November 2022, attackers stole customers’ backups and encryption key. “Upon learning of the incident, we immediately launched an investigation, engaged Mandiant, a leading security firm, and alerted law enforcement. . ” continues the notice.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 8, 2021

Intel Labs announced an initiative funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create hardware that accelerates how computers process homomorphic encryption. If successful, it could thwart the hurdle that keeps the pervasive privacy and security technology out of general use. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 17, 2022

The value of Key Rotation and Re-encryption. To meet various compliance requirements and reduce the risk of your most sensitive data getting compromised you may want to consider changing the encryption key used to protect this data. Thales refers to this changing of encryption keys as “Key rotation” or “Rekey”. Re-encryption.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 29, 2022

How the new Spirion-Thales partnership enables sensitive-data-centric encryption. Planning your enterprise security posture should work the same way. The security must be embedded with the data wherever it travels. Encryption achieves this goal by making the data readable only to those individuals with the proper access levels.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Don't Encrypt Everything; Protect Intelligently. And though you likely cannot calculate exactly how much data your organization holds; you know it is going to be a big and costly problem to “Encrypt Everything.”. Encrypting everything is time intensive because of explosive data growth. Thu, 11/11/2021 - 09:30.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

We review Gemalto SafeNet Database, a database security tool that provides transparent encryption of structured, sensitive data residing in databases.

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2020

Experts spotted recent samples of the Snake ransomware that were isolating the infected systems while encrypting files to avoid interference. The Snake ransomware kills processes from a predefined list, including ICS-related processes, to encrypt associated files. ” continues the analysis. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

They could try to encrypt critical government data, demanding a ransom for its release or threatening to leak sensitive information publicly,” our researchers said. file leaked several types of database credentials, mail credentials, and data encryption keys. The team also discovered credentials for MySQL and Redis databases.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Last August, LastPass reported a security breach, saying that no customer information—or passwords—were compromised. These encrypted fields remain secured with 256-bit AES encryption and can only be decrypted with a unique encryption key derived from each user’s master password using our Zero Knowledge architecture.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 3, 2018

Streamlining operations and improving security. Large data scale breaches have led an increasing number of companies to embrace comprehensive encryption strategies to protect their assets. Microsoft SQL and Oracle Database Key Management Challenges. Solutions for Transparent Database Encryption.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 26, 2022

Open Source Sabotage and Encryption Efficacy Emerge as Tactics in Ukraine Resistance. Ukrainians get serious about encryption. Another cyber front in the war is encryption, as citizens seek out communications that can’t be seen by prying eyes. While both apps boast encryption, the way it’s implemented is not the same.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In a recent revelation, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler uncovered a significant data leak affecting one of the United States' largest health insurance companies, Cigna Health. Fowler stumbled upon the exposed database and promptly reported his findings to Website Planet. terabytes of data. Operating in all 50 U.S.

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Webroot

APRIL 5, 2024

Focus on layering your security posture to focus on threat prevention, protection, and recovery. Check out three healthcare organizations that are strengthening their cyber resilience with layered security tools. Unfortunately, providers will skip it if the encryption tool is difficult to use. But there is hope.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 26, 2018

Enterprise databases house some of the most highly-sensitive, tightly-regulated data—the very data that is sought after by malicious insiders and external attackers. In fact, recent research by Aberdeen found that 86% of enterprises use multiple database vendors.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2017

To combat threats and keep data safe, IT teams must employ robust encryption, key management, and access controls. To secure storage, many organizations have been leveraging native encryption offerings from their storage vendors. Security Versus Efficiency with Flash Arrays. columns of database).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The Apple Mail app available on macOS stores leave s a portion of users encrypted emails in plaintext in a database called snippets. The Apple expert Bob Gendler discovered that the Apple Mail app available on macOS stores leaves a portion of users encrypted emails in plaintext in a database called snippets.

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Spinone

MARCH 19, 2020

On the heels of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and with California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) looming, keeping data private and secure is more critical than ever before. Encryption is one of the tried and true security mechanisms for keeping data secure and private both on-premises and in the cloud.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 13, 2018

Data encryption has been around almost since the age of computers. In truth, anyone with minimal experience can write a simple script that uses default services built into virtually every OS to encrypt data. In Linux, for instance, it takes four openSSL commands to generate an encryption key and encrypt data.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2023

A database containing the personal information of more than 8.9 A database containing personal information of 8,929,503 Zacks Investment Research users emerged on a popular hacking forum on June 10, 2023. At the time, the company added that it had no evidence that financial data has been exposed due to the security incident.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

ArbiterSports, a software provider for several sports leagues including the NCAA, announced that it had averted a ransomware attack in July 2020, but despite blocking the attempt to encrypt their systems, the company discovered that a database backup had been accessed prior to the attack.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 18, 2024

From that story: From the samples shared by the threat actor, the database contains customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and date of birth. The above example simply didn't have plain text entries for the encrypted data.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 10, 2021

One is a scanning feature that will scan all photos as they get uploaded into iCloud Photos to see if they match a photo in the database of known child sexual abuse material (CSAM) maintained by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). Notice Apple changing the definition of “end-to-end encryption.”

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